<i>After crime plummeted in 2020</i> ... <i>“The era of ‘tough on crime’ prosecutors is over in Baltimore,” Mosby said</i><p>I didn't see an updated graph for 2020, but in 2019 Baltimore set a record for homicides. A graph of the past 30 years is illuminating: <a href="https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20190803_USC488.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/20190803_USC48...</a><p>Baltimore's homicide rate at around 58 per 100k people makes it the 11th most violent city on earth, second only to St Louis in the USA and over 10x the national average rate (which itself is 5-10x the homicide rate in most other OECD countries): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate</a><p>Doesn't necessarily argue against ending prosecutions for minor non-violent offenses, but I find this story's framing and blanket rejection of "tough on crime" odd. You could get the impression Baltimore is a major success story in depolicing resulting in a calming peace, rather than it having a (perhaps stochastic) 1 year decline from historic and globally record levels of violence, when the murder rate has been bumping up and down by similar amounts while hovering around an absolutely ghastly level of death.